Michael Curtis, author of "Jews, Antisemitism, and the Middle East", is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in political science at Rutgers University. Curtis is the author of 30 books, and in 2014 was awarded the French Legion d'Honneur

Palestinian leader Abbas can't invoke the UN, which recognised Israel's quintessentially Jewish character, while simultaneously using the UN to call for a Palestinian state without recognising Israel as a Jewish state. Peace depends on resolving this contradiction

Women's rights worsening in MidEast. Almost equally objectionable is the refusal of many Western organizations and activists, supposedly concerned to advance human rights, to recognize the bitter truth as a crucial problem and to demand real, systematic reform

What goes around comes around. A celebrated US university suspended relations with Palestinian Al-Quds University. But that boycott was justified. Nazi salutes and paramilitary dress decorated a rally on their campus

Too many "well-meaning" individuals and groups have swallowed the fallacious Palestinian Narrative of Victimhood in the Middle East and fail to recognize that the Christians living there are the real victims. But in one MidEast country Christians thrive

Everyone concerned with genuine education must be distressed that a body called the American Studies Association responds to a call from extreme anti-Israel lobbyists in almost identical language. This is anti-Semitism pure and simple

The latest boycott of Israel by a US academic group is hypocritical (no surprise there); stupid (well, they're academics!) and unlawful (call in the lawyers). All that aside, it's just ignorance and bigotry

Ripping off the European taxpayer to fund politically correct, pointless Palestinian projects is bad enough. But what on earth is going on when the Palestinian aid recipients are not even working on those pointless projects anyway? Madness!

In her new book, Phyllis Chesler argues that honor-related violence against women and gender apartheid cannot be justified in the name of cultural relativism or religious custom, or political correctness. Western "progressives" should take note

It is hard to believe that Julie Christie and the other 49 people, actors, writers, artists, musicians, who signed The Guardian letter really want the Bedouins to remain in squalor. Israel most certainly does not

It is disgraceful that academic organizations (even in America!) supposedly dedicated to and essentially based on free exchange of ideas, call for punishing Israeli universities, and therefore the individual scholars working there, simply because of their nationality

If Obama does have a coherent foreign policy it is one of non-intervention, and fear of military entanglements. Certainly the US, as Saudi Arabia has made clear, is no longer a leader in Middle Eastern affairs